Energy efficiency of lossless data compression on a mobile device: An experimental evaluation

Author

Dzhagaryan, Armen ; Milenkovic, Aleksandar ; Burtscher, Martin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

21-23 April 2013

Firstpage

126

Lastpage

127

Abstract

Lossless compression and decompression are routinely used in mobile computing devices to reduce the costs of communicating and storing data. This paper presents the results of an experimental evaluation of common compression utilities on Pandaboard, a development platform similar to current commercial mobile devices. We study the compression ratio, compression and decompression throughput, and energy efficiency of different usage scenarios typical for mobile computing. We observe a wide variety of energy costs associated with data compression and provide practical guidelines for selecting the most energy-efficient configurations.

Keywords

cost reduction; data compression; mobile computing; power aware computing; Pandaboard; communicating data cost reduction; compression ratio; compression throughput; decompression throughput; energy efficiency; experimental evaluation; lossless data compression; lossless decompression; mobile computing devices; storing data cost reduction; Data compression; Energy efficiency; Energy measurement; Mobile handsets; Servers; Throughput; Wireless communication; data compression; energy-aware systems; measurement techniques; mobile computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), 2013 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5776-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-5778-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISPASS.2013.6557156

Filename

6557156